Collecting lightning energy

It has been proposed that the energy contained in lightning be used to generate hydrogen from water, to harness the energy from rapid heating of water due to lightning, [4] or to use a group of lightning arresters to harness a strike, either directly or by. Since the late 1980s, there have been several attempts to investigate the possibility of harvesting lightning energy. A single bolt of lightning carries a relatively large amount of energy (approximately 5 gigajoules [1] or about the energy stored in 38 Imperial gallons or 172 litres of gasoline). Unfortunately, relying on lightning bolts to power our hair dryers, TVs, and refrigerators. Inside a storm cloud, updrafts carry positively charged ice crystals to the top, while heavier, negatively charged graupel (soft hail) remains in the. However, this energy is concentrated in a small location and is passed during an extremely short period of time.